{"id":13745,"date":"2019-01-16T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T08:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T08:15:18","slug":"doubles-wins-for-moore-and-peers-while-sharma-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2019\/01\/16\/doubles-wins-for-moore-and-peers-while-sharma-bows-out","title":{"rendered":"Doubles wins for Moore and Peers while Sharma bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Moore<\/strong> and John Peers<\/strong> kept the black swan flag of WA flying high during the day session of Day 3 of the Australian Open in Melbourne today while rising star Astra Sharma<\/strong> bowed out in the singles.<\/p>\n

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Moore and partner Monique Adamczak<\/strong> had a comprehensive win over the Serbian- Chinese combination of Krunic and Zheng \u00a06-1,6-4.<\/p>\n

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2017 Australian Open Doubles Champions, John Peers<\/strong> and Henri Kotinen,<\/strong> had an even easier time of it in their first round match against Mexican Santiago Gonzalez<\/strong> and Pakistan\u2019s Aisen Ul-Haq Qureshi<\/strong> when Gonzalez retired hurt at 3-1 down in the second set. Peers and Kontinen won the first set 6-3.<\/p>\n

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WA\u2019s new singles star Astra Sharma<\/strong> went down in straight sets 1-6, 4-6 to Greece\u2019s Maria Sakkari<\/strong> on a cool, overcast and blustery court 3.<\/p>\n

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Sharma reflected on the her error ridden first set saying that it was a combination of nerves and just wanting to play too well that was her undoing, but is now much wiser for the experience on making the second round of her home Grand Slam on her first attempt.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am really pleased how I came back in the second (set),\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am pretty happy how I loosened up. I now have the confidence to play at this level.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am just really bummed about today (the result).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Being aware that youngsters back home in WA are looking up to her as a source of inspiration since she has burst onto the scene in the last week, Sharma gave some solid advice to them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t have to come from the biggest city or have the best facilities (for success),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt has to come from your own drive not from your parents or anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Perth\u2019s Mastercard Hopman Cup star Matt Ebden<\/strong> will play 17 Grand Slam singles champion Rafael Nadal<\/strong> in the second match on Rod Laver Arena during the Wednesday evening session.<\/p>\n

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– Story by Jocelyn McLennan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jessica Moore and John Peers kept the black swan flag of WA flying high during the day session of Day 3 of the Australian Open in Melbourne today while rising star Astra Sharma bowed out in the singles.   Moore and partner Monique Adamczak had a comprehensive win over the Serbian- Chinese combination of Krunic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":13746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}